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Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages , which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.
Thomas M. Disch, The Priest: A Gothic Romance (1994) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, The Double (1846), The Landlady (1847), Bobok (1873) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Arthur Conan Doyle, Lot No. 249 (1892) Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938) and My Cousin Rachel (1951) George du Maurier, Trilby (1894)
This 1802 caricature of a couple reading Matthew Lewis's The Monk in the water closet satirizes readers of "horrid" (i.e. Gothic) novels. (Rijksmuseum) Minerva Press was a publishing house, notable for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction, active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (1790-1820 [1]). [2]
Here, 20 the best gothic books to read this fall: The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel ...
Also, one cannot ignore the contemporary Gothic themes of mechanism and automation that rationalism and logic lead to. Puritan imagery, particularly that of Hell, acted as potent brain candy for 19th-century authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. [2]
Examples of this form of fiction are now rare, surviving only in a few collections. [2] One of the collections where a number of gothic bluebooks have been preserved is the Corvey Library. [3] Gothic bluebooks were descendants of the chapbook, trade in which had nearly disappeared by 1800. [4]